Adobe Illustrator is now the most requested software for industrial design positions, dethroning Photoshop. Solidworks is third on the list and clearly the most requested 3D application in ID job postings in IDSA's Design Perspectives monthly newsletter. Nine issues of the newsletter were studied from March 2007 to October 2008 and the number of specific mentions of software were counted. Only industrial design postings were counted, not graphic design, engineering, or educational positions.
(See graph at left.)
Adobe Illustrator has proved to be a very versatile rendering tool for design and has especially improved in usefulness since version CS2. Color shape areas remain as editable vectors and filters and effects such as blur, feather, drop shadow, bevel, emboss and others can be used to great effect.
(the snowboard boot shown here was done with Illustrator by Western sophomore ID student James Lin)
Adobe Photoshop is still holding a strong second place, since it gives incredible control for rendering quick shading or photorealistic rendering. Mastering techniques such as paths and quickmasks can be difficult however. It remains to be one of the most powerful and versatile software tools for a designer.
(The Mustang shown here was done with Photoshop by Western ID senior Tavis Highlander)
Solidworks has moved up to be the most requested 3D application for industrial design. This is probably because of it's ease of use, quick learning curve, powerful features, and low price compared to other parametric solid applications.
Alias Studio is the most requested nurbs/surfacing application, battling it out with Rhinoceros. This may because of it's aggressive education initiative, and being owned by AutoDesk which now provides free educational copies to students. It has great history with the ID profession and continues to be a very powerful application.
The biggest loser during the past 4 years has been AutoCAD, which went from being 7th place to near the bottom, tied for 9th along with Corel Painter, 3DS Max, and Corel Draw. Being a former user of AutoCAD, I can think of a hundred reasons why this is. Once you go parametric 3D modeling, you can't go back.
What do you use? Why do you prefer it?
미국 웨스턴 와싱턴 대학 산업디자인과 교수인 Jason Morris가, 미국 IDSA 월간 뉴스레터 2007년 3월부터 2008년 10월까지 실린 구인광고 (제품디자인만, 그래픽디자인은 제외...)를 분석하여 업체에서 가장 많이 요구하는 SW Tool 리스트를 작성하였다고한다. 1등은 일러스트레이터, 2등은 포토샵... Alias가 4위, Rhino3D는 6위, 오토캐드는 9위...
Pro-E 도 5위인거 보니 배운게 헛되진 않은듯. 그런데 솔웍이 3위인거보니깐 솔웍의 인기도 좋은거 같다.
출처 :
http://idsandbox.blogspot.com/2008/11/is-illustrator-new-king-of-id-software.html
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